Colombia

José Rosero is a Colombian visual artist. His works have been published in different magazines, newspapers and publishing houses. He has also held exhibitions in different spaces in Colombia and abroad, and has received recognition in Colombia, Italy, Mexico, Japan, Korea and the U.S. He has given workshops and lectures based on his own research in eight countries, as well as being director of the Casatinta space in Bogota, Colombia, a house dedicated to illustration and visual arts.

For Rosero, art is like a compendium of languages, where each language can be learned and brought to interact with others. That is why he has been developing his work in painting, drawing, illustration, teaching and cultural management, with approaches to sculpture, photography and performing arts. For Rosero, the artist must be a polyglot, since a question always has more than one answer, and by exploring the arts one can find the most varied ways to respond.

Andrea Ganuza, (Pamplona, 1988) His artistic practice focuses on graphic narrative and drawing, experimenting with the expansion of the limits of comic language and understanding it as a discipline of contemporary art. With a language close to poetry and a sharp humour, she uses her own experiences to pay attention to the axes that run through us: the social, the political and the emotional. Starting from the premise that drawing is a language and is therefore influenced by the context, Andrea is constantly looking for different ways of understanding the world. This curiosity has led her to travel the globe, thanks to grants and artist residencies.  Some of the places that have shaped her ways of doing are Barcelona, Bilbao, Bristol, Angoulême, Quebec, São Paulo and Medellín, where ‘Atrviésame’, her first graphic novel self-published in 2023.

She is training and work develop inside and outside the Academy, alternating her participation and teaching in official spaces and festivals related to counterculture, graphic art, fanzine and DIY.  Her drawings have been exhibited in spaces such as Museo Reina Sofía, CentroCentro or La Parcería (Madrid), Fundación Suñol, Galería Policroma (Barcelona), Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao) and can be found in the collection of the Museo de Navarra. In addition to her individual artistic practice, she has initiated and participated in numerous collective projects such as the independent space La Zurda, PUMPK Festival de Autoedición de Pamplona/Iruña, the feminist collective NENAZAS or Tormenta in Medellín (Colombia). She currently lives and works in Pamplona.

Elizabeth Builes was born in Medellín. She has dedicated herself to exploring nature through visual storytelling. In 2013, she won the Tragaluz Illustration Award and thanks to this recognition she participated in the book ‘Johnny and the Sea’, by the writer Melba Escobar, which was included in the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany. She has published in several publishing houses in Colombia and Latin America. Her assistants, Piñata and Carambolo, accompany her on long days of drawing and greet her when she comes home from running.

Alejandro Moreno Marín studied industrial design and specialised in photography at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2016). He has edited books, made clothes, designed objects and painted streets. Everything that has occupied his time revolves around the narrative possibilities of the image and the exploration of media and materials. She has participated in group exhibitions in Bogotá and London (2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024) and solo exhibitions in Bogotá and Medellín (2023). His photographic work has been reviewed in editorial publications such as the Photographic Museum of Humanity (2019), Revue 6 mois (France, 2021) and Yogurt Magazine (Italy, 2020, 2021).

His current artistic work consists of creating works from textile materials. Through his work in photobook publishing, he has developed a special interest in the narratives that can be constructed through the interaction between the images and the material that supports them. Although the process of conceptualisation and the sketching methods he employs have much in common with traditional artistic practices such as drawing or painting, the use of techniques such as embroidery, weaving and patchwork imply specific possibilities determined by the material. Transitioning from paper fibres to textile fibres means being open to surprise, as the very nature of textiles conditions and determines the characteristics of the image.

His work is nourished by his sensitive experience; he does not look for outstanding events or issues, but rather explores the extraordinary in the everyday. His subjects of interest include religious iconography, material culture and popular graphic production. He finds in everyday materials and techniques an important input for the creation of his works, seeking to re-signify their artistic value and to propose new forms of application and interaction with them. By employing techniques traditionally associated with the home, such as embroidery and weaving, he aims to expand conventional narratives about these methods.

Alejandra Oviedo. She was born in Bogotá, Colombia. She is a visual artist, her work focuses on drawing and embroidering stories of her daily life, places, objects and people.  She has been very influenced by the culture of her country, its colours, textures, music, food and people. Embroidery has given her a lot, it taught her to be patient, to be able to express herself with threads, to meet new people, to meditate and to take time to take care of and discover her inner self.

She teaches illustration and embroidery at Casatinta, and experiments with materials other than thread, such as paper or metal. She also likes to draw in the sand and then erase it with her feet.